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It sounds good in BASIC, but i prefer it under XB. Change line 120 like this: 120 FOR R=1 TO 14 Much faster paced. I wish this music was playing in the background of, for instance, a TOD adventure.

So what your saying is we are all just a bunch of perverted Digimon waiting to evolve? I'm cool with that 🙂

Well... If you follow a rabbit hole deep enough, you find the rabbit's hole.

You know, i'm kind of wondering the same thing.

Ditto. Glad to know its not just me getting that.

I normally pass on city bomber games, but this is actually pretty good😊. Also, when i downloaded the file DESCEND, the forum put a ".bin" ending on it. I have a habit of scanning for and snatching the downloads first, then going back and reading the post. So at first, i thought this file was a FinalGrom cart lol.

I have created a program (and some accompanying programs) to assist in counting the Omer (the days leading up to the Jewish holiday of Shavout [Feast of Weeks]) Before developing this, i kept track of the Omer by using a d50 (fifty sided dice), and rotating it to the next higher number each day. This utilizes the TIPI.CLOCK device (or equivalent clock device, like Classic99's special CLOCK device). @pixelpedant was a big help, providing me with a custom speech data file, adding the words "today" and "day" (as a single phrase, "today is day", not separate). The main program, COUNTOMER, is intended to be run once (& only once) daily, every day, for fifty consecutive days. If you do not remember to run it every day, simply run it again as many times as the number of days you forgot to run it, until the programs output represents the correct day of the counting. The value of the Omer is stored on disk in the OMER file and is read by COUNTOMER. The program RESETOMER is used to reset the file OMER to a default value of 1. The file OMER is also reset to the value 1 after the program is run on the 50th day and its message has been displayed. The current value in OMER may be viewed by running the VIEWOMER program, which simply displays whatever value is stored in the OMER file. The file SPEECH contains @pixelpedant's custom speech data. I did try my hand at making the custom "day" and "today" words myself, but could not quite get the hang of it. I hope someone finds this useful, please enjoy. counting the omer.zip

😳 🎧 Headphone warning! Do not play this while wearing headphones! (Like i stupidly did. Missed the note in parenthesis) I think my ears are bleeding lol. @Retrospect How about calling it "Eric in 99/8 Land"?

Not actually all that off topic, but didn't want to make a thread for it: I had to do a double take just now, as i was scanning through the TI XB manual, specifically the word list for CALL SAY(). I thought i seen the word "reefer" aka weed... LOL It was refer, i.e. "mention or allude to".

Makes me wonder why they didn't try for 64k instead of a odd sounding 62k. Looking forward to what you can cook up 🙂

That's what i was missing, the ",INTERNAL,INPUT,FIXED 255" part. Thanks again!

I guess i just never noticed this until now, but the TI-99/4 has a normal spacebar, as well as a key marked "SPACE". Why? Do both the "SPACE" key and spacebar send the same key code, or different key codes? I.E. could you redefine the "SPACE" key character and leave the normal spacebar space (char 32) alone for normal text use? Anyone have some insight on this "SPACE" key?

200 potential new games? Yes please!

How do i take the file this program outputs (shows up as INT/FIX 255 in TI99DIR) and read the data into a string to feed to CALL SAY() from XB? I know i can do CALL SAY("",STRING$) where string is data from CALL SPGET("WORD",STRING$), and i can store the string to disk and read it back: But i can not seem to do that with the files made by this program. An example of how to use these output files in XB with CALL SAY would be appreciated. (attached dsk has both of the above pictured programs on it) spget testing.dsk

Yes, i do intend to stick with 2.40 still. 3.x offers nothing new for my daily day to day usage. But now i have it setup and ready to go, if i need it in the future, monitor and keyboard and all. When the day comes that i need 3.x, i just swap the sd card, do any pending updates, and go from there.

Got it. I had to ssh into the Pi from a linux command line on my Ubuntu machine: ssh -l tipi 192.168.0.7 Then i did sudo raspi-config, and changed: 2 display options > D6 composite > Would you like composite video output to be enabled? > Yes Good enough. My main computer is clear across the house. Much better when i can do everything seated in front of my TI instead of trekking all over the house. Now back to my normal tinkerings.

Everything is hooked up correctly. The monitor is using the 4-pole AV "headphone" jack to connect, not hdmi. Only thing hooked up is a usb keyboard, which works with other OS images i have tried, no problem. Nothing was changed physically except a different SD card. Image attached shows PI during boot. A few more seconds, and the monitor blanks out. Pardon the dust.

I have installed the newest TIPI SD card image to a new sd card to test it out. It appears to be working, the web interface is there and working etc, successfully updated to 3.4. How ever, i noticed that once it finishes booting, the connected monitor i have on my Rasberry Pi 3B blanks out. This is inconvenient for me. On the old SD card image of TIPI 2.40 i was able to use the monitor and a usb keyboard when needed straight away without any doing on my part. Honestly the telnet 40 and 64 column mode ran from CALL TIPI looks like crap for doing things from a linux command line and i I don't have a F18a to test 80 column mode so can not comment on that. It was much easier to accomplish what i needed directly from a real monitor at a real keyboard hooked straight into the Pi. I would like to know how i can achieve the same thing on the new release, I.E. be able to use my usb keyboard and monitor as a linux terminal directly on the Pi.

Who here doesn't remember Blasto? Now, you can play it in 3D 🙂 https://archive.org/details/blasto3d100

I'm still running TIPI v2.40 and plan to stay there. I'm running the older DSR ROM too. Unless newer updates bring some kind of a "must-have" feature that i think i can't live without, i'm staying put. As long as i can use my TIPI to load and save programs, i'm good; everything else is fluff... Ok maybe not everything, but really, acting as a disk replacement was my main reason to purchase, but i've been playing around with the PI.CLOCK device a bit, just because.

Thanks for the heads up.

I have looked everywhere i know where to look. I can not find a copy of the manual online anywhere. Can anyone provide a pdf of this, please?

Can anyone post the Part B disk version with TI Invaders source, for completeness?

Ok, number 1, that would hurt like a MF to get hit by a flying PEB. Number 2, thats a shameful end to any TI hardware, especially a PEB...

On behalf of the whole TI community, thank you (and your father) 🙂